This is one of those rare cases where I feel 100% sorry for the dealerships. I can only imagine the grief service managers must go through having to bull shi* the customer to support this garbage. Their hands must be pretty much tied, they had a completely defective product foisted on them by the corporation. Thing is, most people actually love the car itself, besides the trans it seems to be a well engineered car. They'd likely forgive this if the car could be made right.

Buy the cars back, or install a completely re-engineered and tested transmission in ALL the affected cars sold. How else are they going to put this behind them?

I followed this story too Mark. It's a shame especially when you read how the engineers knew this transmission would cause problems but were afraid to speak up for fear it would jeopardize their careers.

In 1985 GM came out with the front wheel drive Olds 98. It featured the new 4 speed automatic transaxle. It had issues, to say the least. When our technicians from the dealership went to service school to learn about the new unit, the teacher there told the techs that the engineers at GM had dubbed it the "rolling grenade"..... It lived up to its name in those early years.